Life is beautiful

A story of a swan

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:42:00 +0000

There's a nice lake some time back I visited, and there's so much of swans,ducks and birds around. That's when I started to admire a swan and just looked at it for about 20 minutes. And that's when I was animated by the way it turn its rubber-type neck! Heck! Animal watching is so much fun...

posing !

And then she turned away from me!

And this is the best pose !

Wordless Wednesday - 5

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:12:00 +0000

Yeh Dil Maange More!

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:55:00 +0000

Yeh Dil Mange more..not the gifts, but love! Not just me, every soul on earth do yearn for love, a cuddle, a smile, little conversation, some attention, a lifetime camaraderie!

IS there anything beautiful/satisfying than sharing the love with the one who loves you so much? If you do think sharing love is THE MOST beautiful thing, then why do we have to wait for a year till this valentine's day to do that? Do we see auspicious time for sharing love?

Many of them (read media) have adulterated the meaning of Love and Valentine's Day. It's not just the day meant for 2 people (a couple who's in love or married). There can't be any discrimination made on this. It's a right to love and to be loved! It's for every single living thing - from animals to birds or insects, to people who live in the streets, to people who work hard to earn the bread, to the one who's been neglected in life, to the one's who've been asked to stay in old age home..I could just go on adding so many! But the point is to share and give love! So give them all the love generously, endlessly!

The world should never be in deficit of love! If that happens, that's the end of world! Long live love!!!

Happy Valentine's Day to you all!!

A walk to remember!

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:58:00 +0000

Dear S,
I promise to you
when we grow old and
reminisce about our days of togetherness
the journey we take through
our memory lane will be
the best walk to remember!

Much love,
A

L-O-V-E

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:45:00 +0000

Love...in simple...makes life worthwhile!

Portrait speaks

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:50:00 +0000

Another (boring) Saturday browsing through hard-disk photos! I would soon be able to publish a future international best seller titled "100 things to do when husbands work on a weekend". I'm the queen of sarcasm today!

Came across a beautiful street painter's photo and realised how many such street painters I've seen in my European travel. The answer is plenty!
In a continent that always had great artists and painters in abundance, it is not unusual. I've enjoyed the paintings of these street painters as much as I adored the Vincent Van Gogh or Picasso or anyone!
Albeit having such a great talent, the street painter's life isn't a piece of cake. They have to compete everyday with 100 other artists who sit on the same street and who is equally talented as him. They totally rely on the tourists. And how much they earn or is that sufficient for their day-to-day living or what will they do during winter months are still questions for which I don't know the answer.
But I must say, I've always stunned at the quickness and the precise with which these painters work. In 10 minutes your beautiful caricature or pencil portrait gets done!

In this picture the girl who poses looks more beautiful in the painting isn't it?

Portrait painting and caricatures

Here's one more live portrait painting captured!

These are just a few of the 100's of pictures I took in each town/city or village! I and S got one painted together in Paris. It's a nice souvenir to carry with you along with the lovely memories you had in that particular city.

Photography Gyan # 6 (Long Exposure)

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:45:00 +0000

I know this is the 100th time I am saying this, but can't stop myself without any inkling! If you are using a slow shutter speed you definitely need to use a tripod. And the previous gyan's last picture is taken with slow shutter speed (1 sec).
Learning slow shutter speed (long exposure) is so much fun. And learning them with not-so-great photos is even more fun. To me, learning is at its best - only when we learn from our mistakes and not from what makes us proud.
Do you know how to make jelabi, sev etc. Why am I jumping from photography to food topic? Confused?? See the below pictures.
Here's the Jelabi! (Shutter speed used is 4 secs)

Here's some Sev! (1/2 sec)

And some Thenkuzhal (2 sec exposure)

How relishing are they! I'm talking about these photos. I don't know how many budding photographers have liked slow shutter speed Light trials and experimentation, but I simply loved them. Isn't it so much fun to make all kinds of Indian snacks and sweets using your camera?

These are some of the myriad scrap photos that I had. They are definitely not the best ones, but they are mine - still precious to me. So I am using them here to explain slow shutter speed.
Setting low shutter speed means increasing the time. Refer here.

If you are using point and shoot (Henceforth called as P&S), set the camera to night shot mode. It will automatically chooses a slow shutter speed depending on the light conditions. When you press the shutter button, move around the camera in any desired direction and make your own Jelabi, jangri,thenkuzhal and murukku!
If you are using a SLR, set to S mode, increase the shutter speed to 4 or more sec and rotate, tilt or zigzag your camera, and you can see these light trials (perfect lines that are formed due to long exposure).

These can be done handheld. But if you want these light trials to be perfectly lined, you need tripod. Take a look at this picture here. It's taken with 8 sec exposure. Aren't these traffic light trials awesome. I haven't tried my hands on them yet, because I don't get to travel a lot in the night time with a tripod.
A long exposure will increase the clarity of the picture if it is positioned in tripod.

Some examples of how a picture looks if they are handheld with long exposure. This one's taken with just 1 sec exposure. Keeping your camera standstill for 1 sec is very difficult - try it out and you will realize yourself!

And this one's taken with 1/2 sec exposure. Taken during diwali in our very own Chennai.

And this one below is even less - 1/3 sec.

You now realize the importance of tripod?

Now it totally puts me in shame to even publish above shown pictures in my so-called-beautiful-blog that has some nice pictures. Even worse are to watermark them with my name! As if there are 1000s of people to steal and misuse these pictures!
Below is one of that million dollar picture I have (badly framed though), taken with a proper tripod stand and set at 8 sec exposure. This is the image of Sri Parthasarathy temple Gopuram, as seen from my in-laws' terrace.

So it's time for you to try out your favorite snack or sweet in your camera!

PS: I've just past 10th Feb by 26 minutes. I spent around 2 hours researching my archives to pick right pictures and realised just now that I'am already on 11th Feb. So I'm taking the liberty of post dating the post to 11.45pm on 10th Feb.

Thursday Challenge - RED

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:30:00 +0000

After a thoughtful consideration of whether to write a proper post or not, sleep preceded over writing! So keeping it simple to Thursday Challenge!

Anything in RED is this weeks prompt.

This is a decoration light I spotted in one of the Christmas markets.

Wordless Wednesday - 4

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:15:00 +0000

Ten on Tuesday - 8

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:16:00 +0000

Here's the random 10 things that I did when the husband was working over the weekend glued to the computer at home! Which means I still have no free time, but to cook and serve him, let alone feed him! And the weather outside was pretty cold, so did not divulge myself to go out for any photo shoot.
I was so bored, and tried to do 100 other things to keep myself occupied! How crazy that could get? Presenting a few of the stupidest things that I did over the last weekend.

1. Downloaded / installed 100 apps on my iphone and saw how they are and after some fiddling, deleted them!
2. Cleared my wardrobe and re-arranged them again!
3. When you are bored, you don't want to do the regular chores like washing, cleaning, cooking etc. While I was reading Memoirs of a Geisha, all of sudden I wanted to check my typing skills. So, set the timer on, opened the word doc and started typing one chapter. And had a pat on my back!
4. Went through amazon and added some 25 items as a wishlist. I think I need to email these to S!
5. Pampered myself. Soaked for hours in the bath and applied loads of moisturizing cream.
6. Wrote a few blog topics for the days to come and have drafted them. Whenever an idea struck me, I open and key in the details and save as draft. I work on them one day, whenever something enlightens me! Yes. I have 35 drafts so far!
7. Connected my harddisk and went through my archives especially photos. Going through old junk data, excel, photos, scraps is a nice feeling. I saw an excel which read Notes from my life. It had some random dates and what happened that day!
8. Browsed through Imdb and made a list of 25 movies that I need to download and see.
9. Drank some 15 glasses of water. Room hopped every 15-20 minutes, went to kitchen and drank a glass of water!
10. Prepared a bucket list / things to do for the next 10 years! Haven't completed them. Will write about them in a separate post!

Any other interesting ideas to do when we get bored, Please share them. I might desperately need them over the next few weekends too!

Add Calories!

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:50:00 +0000

Calorie is a word people does not want to hear these days! They think it as a monster. I've heard a few girls saying "Oh that's hell a lotta calories. I don't want them". Calories are not monsters or demons!

Calories aren't bad for anyone. They're like fuel. They are like oxygen and water. Everyone must intake certain calories. You need them to charge and energize yourself. But too much of calories are not good. Being underweight or overweight is not good!

So, if you want to reduce few gms/kgs of weight or add weight, first thing you need to do is understand your BMI(Body Mass Index) which tells you if you are fit or you need to reduce weight or gain weight) and keep track of daily calories you are taking in.

You can use this link to check how you want to work out your plan.
http://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html

Entering the details will give you a result of how much calorie you need to maintain your weight, or reduce your weight or to increase them. Then you have to keep track of daily calorie intake.
Before cautiously reducing your food intake, try to add the details of food you are having everyday for a couple of days (at-least for about a week). Once you recognise the calorie intake per day, start to work out. It's simple math, not rocket science.

In this ipad and iphone world, it is not difficult to track these. There's calorie calculator applications available which you can download in your phone. Alternatively, there's online journal too. I used MyfitnessPal (both online and app versions are available).

This app will ask you to create profile with personal information like what's your current weight, Goal Weight, Height, Gender, Level of Activities. And you have to set a target for Calorie Intake. You can't choose a random number here. The targeted calorie intake should be sensible one.

While keeping targets for reducing weight, be cautious to choose enough time for it. Reducing 10kgs in a month or 5 kgs in 2 weeks is insane! Take your time! It's like adding weight - it can't happen overnight!

Note 1: For women the minimum calorie intake should be atleast 1200 and for men it should be 1500.

Instead of choosing low calorie intake, you can actually keep a good amount of calorie intake and burn some of them by doing certain exercises like climbing stairs, walking, cleaning or by doing simple stretch exercises. That is always healthier option. For eg instead of keeping the target as 1200, keep 1700 and burn 400 or so. You got it?

There's a tab to check the progress you are making.If you are worrying how to identify calories in every food. Don't worry. You can identify them as KCal in every product. If that's a food that you prepare at home, you can google or if you are using the above said application, it has every food details from rice, to biriyani to gobi aloo to butter chicken. Similarly, you have to key in the activities that you are doing everyday like washing, cooking, cleaning vessels, walking, running, climbing stairs etc.

But you have to religious follow them, update the tracker everytime you eat, and look out for Kcal details in every food product. If you could follow these, I'm sure this app is helpful and you will start reaching your target of gaining or reducing weight.

I've written so much because I did all these, used the app, and saw a good change. So happy calorie counting and diet tracking!

When the husband works on weekend...

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:40:00 +0000

How does it feel? It bores me to death staring at the walls!
This weekend was more of that kind - both the days! I tried reading the book, but could not concentrate. I did my normal house chores, spoke with my parents on skype, attempted to watch tele. But I actually did nothing wholeheartedly.
Listened to some songs online and engaged myself during the solitude. I thought of sharing this particular song that features Nicole Scherzinger.

I like Nicole - her voice, bronze colored skin and her height that looks awfully beautiful onscreen. This song (below) did not hit the charts really well (to be honest, none of her single charts had a great hit). But I liked this song, can I say particularly for the cinematography! It's a visually astounding album, where Nicole (who looks gorgeous in this song) wanders around picturesque location. I'll let you enjoy the song!

Isle of Arran - Part 3

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:50:00 +0000

It wouldn't be fair to leave the travelogue incomplete. So, I will conclude this long procrastinated travelstory here. You might want to read through Isle of Arran - Part 1 and Part 2 here.

Third part is nothing much except rain and more rain! But the summer/early autumn rain is always beautiful. They smell nice!

Brodick Castle located on the north side of Brodick Bay, is situated under the shadow of Goatfell mountain and is a part of Brodick Country park. A venture into this country park will make you witness walled gardens, Bavarian summerhouse, an ice house and various woodland walking trials. Not to forget the flora and fauna that were in abundance. I like country parks for walking trials. The routes are normally scenic and simple to walk on any given day. With that erratic weather, we gave up our plans of trekking Goatfell and chose the woodland trial. But reaching the brodick castle from our B&B itself was a scenic trial.

And as we passed through this tiny stream...

We were just hunting to catch sight of the castle, but that was so misty. And Ah, we spotted it finally.

We walked about 1 mile away from the centre of the town and saw this lovely stretch of coastline covered by mist

There are numeral walking trials to reach Brodick castle and trek up to the Goatfell. We chose this route and it was so green!

These Gazebo kind of small houses were beautiful inside the country park.

And that's the only proper castle photo I managed to take in that rain.

One can spend a day inside this country park. There's so much to see and do. It's worth a visit during spring when rhododendron bursts in full bloom (I was said this information at the ticket centre).

This is the walking trial route which took us through the wildflower meadows.

And the trial ended with this dramatic small wooden bridge.

Since it was drizzling constantly, I could not take many pictures.

Brodick Castle and country park is worth a visit if you are in Isle of Arran. This whole isle is a beautiful nature filled place with so much to do and see.

Photography Gyan # 5 (Shutter Speed during Night)

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:40:00 +0000

There's a famous saying "The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it"(quote by Benjamin Disraeli). So I started writing about photography to share my experiences and learning, and partially(read secretly) to improve my own knowledge as well!

And I'm totally glad that it's motivating me to write more. On continuation with the Story of Shutter speed, today's topic is using shutter speed during night.
By far, this is the biggest challenge for any budding photographer. If you decipher the reason behind blur images, it drills down to one of the main issue - shutter speed!
Does not matter what camera you have, if you intend to take good night shots, you have to invest in a tripod. It's an asset you'll never regret of buying! That said, I am not asking you to buy them immediately or that you cannot take a night shot without tripod. You can - but that takes lot of time and effort.

Be cautious that when you take the night shots, you have to keep the camera firm.Even the slightest micro movement could cause a major impact on your picture. While it is true that fast movements can be captured well in high shutter speed, it is also true that slow shutter speed of the same movement might produce a magical shot! And to cover the depth(of what I know) of this topic will take a few posts, I will keep this post simple and straightforward.
Let's cut to the chase, leave all these sidetracks for discussions!

Here's Example 1:-

This one's taken handheld with a high shutterspeed (apparently without flash). The shutter speed used was 1/125 sec. You can adjust the shutter speed in S Mode in SLR.
For point and shoot, Auto mode without flash will yield this kind of picture.

Realised that the previous photo needed some divine light. So switched on the flash, and increased the shutter speed a bit to see what comes on the picture. Shutter speed used here is 1/160 sec..
For point and shoot, Auto with flash will give this result.

Now how does this look like?? Did you like this picture?? Of course this is not a fine one, but were taken during my experimentation. To bring this to perfection like this, we need to use tripod and practice more. Ok. Let me test your knowledge - The shutter speed used in this picture is slow or fast? Write back in the comment.

Practice a few night shots and see how it comes. As this is an extensive topic, I will leave the rest for the next post, until then happy clicking and a happy saturday!

Thursday Challenge - ONE

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:20:00 +0000

This week's Thursday Challenge is One (one of anything, unique, standing out, special...). Thought this would fit the prompt really well.

I confess that I had no time to write a post. By now, you'd have realised how badly I'm camouflaging to post at least 1 post everyday. Honestly, after writing posts for close a month on everyday, I feel totally tired! But I don't want to discontinue this Project 366. So, somedays, to just keep the momentum going, I will fill the space with Wordless wednesdays and Thursday challenges! Now my blog totally looks like a photoblog for which I already feel a bit flustered, that I so desperately wanted to write a non-photo post or a non-photography-oriented post. God knows when that will happen. Till I see you tomorrow with another post, have a good day or good night - wherever you are!

Wordless Wednesday - 3

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:20:00 +0000

Palace of Holyrood in Edinburgh

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:45:00 +0000

Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh is still an official residence in Scotland, of her majesty the Queen(for precisely a week or so). This is located at the end of Royal mile, the other end of this being Edinburgh castle. The palace stands out against the spectacular backdrop of Salisbury crags, the dormant volcano. This is the ornamental gate to enter the castle.

The first view of palace from forecourt. Part of the palace on the left side are the only remains of the original palace, the brick of which is think, rough and dark as you see.

And here is the lovely carved royal entrance.

Some intricate carvings on the fountain in the forecourt.

The oldest part of this royal residence is 15th century, but most of what we see is 17th century as a result of the rebuilding by Charles II. Compared to Windsor and other Royal residences, this Palace is kind of more a relaxed type. You are allowed to freely walk in most places, although photography is not allowed inside.

Adjacent to this palace lies the ruins of Holyrood Abbey that was founded in 1128 by a scottish king.

the remains of Abbey...

This is definitely one of the interesting places to see when you visit Edinburgh...

What's your state of mind?

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:30:00 +0000

I've often co-related state of mind to a water wave! Probably that's true. That's why people say "Why your mind is wavering?"

I thought I will illustrate their relation through photographs of waves! I know, while my mind was wavering through a topic to write today, this crap was born!! Enjoy and get enlightened ;)

This is how your mind is when you are in shanti (calm) state

Initial stages of worry and stress cause a bit of shake in your mind

Slight increase in blood pressure, not being able to concentrate, sleepless nights, and nothing-is-happening syndrome arise! And your mind starts raging!

Increased tension, stress, getting annoyed, yelling at someone, bad moods are common in this phase.

Verge of frustration, anger, depression, high BP, feel like slapping or kicking someone

And you are all set to explode

The actual explosion of mind happening here! Often portrayed by the act of yelling, swearing, crying, even attempting to self harm or cause physical harm to others!!

The mind slowly tries to calm down!

You kind of realise your act of stupidity in this phase or even wonder why you behaved in such a way!

Getting back to normal stage!

I know what you are thinking just now! Don't worry. My mind is still in a shathi state only. It's just I thought of illustrating the mind set and behavioral patterns in a nice way! But I understand that it turned out to be a total nonsense :)

Now just erase those insane words, and enjoy those pictures. These lovely wave formations (actually high tide waves) just amazed me so much in my recent trip. I took 100's of pictures of such rising tide and water splashing on the rock or a building! And on a good weather condition (read non freezing cold), one can enjoy this sudden showers thrown on you! Totally.

To my dear neighbour!

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:30:00 +0000

I knew you are normally a nice boy. I liked it when you got the parcel for me during my absense, and helped me bring that home. I appreciated the little christmas and new year greeting card that you posted to me. And that little invitation you threw at us to get some donation for your school and asking us to join the school day. I totally appreciate all this. You are a nice boy to your mum. But I can't find solace staying as your neighbour!

Your doggy is beautiful, but it constantly barks, which totally annoys me! And why does it have to bark everytime I open my house door?

Your sister, ha! Doesn't she get a good time to drill the wall? What the hell is she going to do drilling them at 12.00am and spoiling my sleep?

And you little monster, why do you have to wake up so early at 6.00am to play your drums! Least I would've cared if they are rhythmic! But you just hit them randomly which makes my ears bleed! I already have my alarms set - And I don't need yours.

Had it ended there, I wouldn't have written this! Boy! what kind of fun you get in making that Halloween effect of noise all the time. It drives me crazy, and I get scared to hell if I'm alone, and when it's dark.

Now, enough is enough. Stop doing these nonsense and be a good boy and a good neighbour.

From,
Your much-annoyed Neighbour next door

Saturday Song for you!

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:45:00 +0000

Since a couple of you had written in this post that you have not listened to some of the songs, I thought of sharing them with you.

And this is my current favorite song I hymn all the time. The bold voice of adele, tune and lyrics are so addictive!

Adele's Rolling in the deep! Listen, see and enjoy!

Frei'tag'

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:24:00 +0000

Honestly this is the first tag post I'm doing, and that's because Shilpa generously awarded me "Versatile Blogger Award". Oohh that sounds posh na? Hurray! I'm so happy :)
Thank you so much Shilpa :)

There are these rules I ought to follow in this:

- To nominate 15 fellow bloggers (I don't even have 15 readers to my blog! )

- Inform the bloggers of their nomination

- Share 7 random things about you

- Thank the blogger who nominated you

- Add the award picture in the post

So, there we go, know 7 random things about me :)

1. I am a spendthrift. I spend money on everything that I see, and later realise I don't even need them. And yes, I'm an expensive wife of S.

2. I can play Veena (instrument) pretty well. I started learning them when I was 5 years. I can also play Guitar and Keyboard.

3. I love eating chocolates, sugar, jaggery,cake or anything that's sweet, except the indian sweets. I know, that's weird. I can't somehow bear the indian sweet's taste. There are 2 exceptions though - Kaju Katli and Jamoon.

4. I'm probably only soul on earth that is hydromaniac and hydrophoic! I enjoy being in water as much as being scared of them.

5. It's very easy to make me cry. Husband says that I store glycerine tank in tonnes! I cry when I see movies, serials, and even when someone gets eliminated in the reality shows :)

6. It took me 2 years to make a proper chapathi (that said, don't underestimate my cooking talent!)

7. I'm over obsessed with Photography - you know that by now :)

I'm tagging this award to :-

RS
Alka
Raji
Amity
Ruchi
Amrit
Rama
The Era
Kala
Rachna

Note: I'm sorry if you've already been tagged. And 'Freitag' in German means Friday!

Photography Gyan # 4

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:30:00 +0000

I hope by now, you got a bit familiar with what I was attempting to tell in previous gyan about Aperture! And did you all had enough time to try them out. Now give me honest answer folks? Were you really able to understand?

Alright. I assume that you all are slowing getting familiarised. But any question, do drop me an email / comment. And I shall get back to you at the earliest (if I know the answer).

In continuation with what we learnt last, I am going to explain about the next pillar of exposure - Shutter Speed. The very name doesn't need any detailed explanation, because all of us know what shutter speed is. If you're not sure - Shutter speed is the amount of time the shutter is open and exposed to light. If Aperture is for the controlling the amount of light, shutter speed is for controlling the time required for light to expose.

Easy things first. Every camera has shutter speed. The shutter speed will be fixed in basic point and shoot cameras, while they can be changed in SLRs.

Ok..now the question comes to your mind is why should one use a shutter speed? Different kind of shutter speed will produce different effects on the photography. By adjusting the shutter speed, one can control the subject's movements - for instance lets say, subject is flowing water.

A fast shutter speed will freeze the flowing water while a slow shutter speed will make the water look blurred (since the subject is moving). If you want both movement and blur, you might need to use the flash. And these shutter speeds provide different effects in day and night time. That is fast shutter in day and that in night will give 2 completely different effects.

Like how apertures are measured by f-stops, shutter speeds are measured by seconds or fraction of seconds (in most cases). The larger the denominator, the faster the shutter speed is. For eg: 1/1000 is faster than 1/30. And 1/60 is the normal speed we use in our cameras. If the speed is more than 1/60, it is still easy to take photographs. But if its reduced to anything less than 1/60,the photos get shaky. You might be sometimes wondering why the photo is blurred (especially when you try taking night shots). The reason is this. If it reduces below 1/60, you need a tripod or some means to stabilize the image. Hand held does not work unless you are a pro!

Let me try explaining these concepts by using illustrations from my archives.

This is captured with high shutter speed - 1/500 sec. In this, you can see the actual water movement being captured.

The same subject is captured with a slow shutter speed in this picture - 1/4 sec

You see the difference between these 2 pictures? Hope this gives you some heads up to start working on shutter speed. Try them out. I will write more in next gyan.

For previous related posts, click Gyan 1, Gyan 2 and Gyan 3.

Wordless Wednesday - 2

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:00:00 +0000

Ten on Tuesday - 7

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:30:00 +0000

10 on tuesday's special - My faourite 10 songs from 2011 (English all genres)

Last year has been a great year to music - whatever be the language! Particularly in English, there's been beautiful numbers scored
that just completely hooked me! I got addicted and obsessed to some of these songs! Some songs just took me back to somewhere enjoying my solitude,while others kindled me to stand up and tap foot!

There goes the 10 favourite songs from 2011 - Although they are not in any particular order! I can't go through the stress of deciding which is the top most favourite song! Oh please!

On the Floor - J Lopez ft Pitbull
To me, JLO is a music goddess! Such a gifted voice she has. And let alone her dancing and elegance and at par sexy moves! She dances like a total party animal in the song! And that jet fast lyrics by Pitbull!!

Party Rock Anthem - LMFAO
A true anthem to the party goers! This is one of that songs that makes you tap foot!

We found Love - Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris
Comparing with Rihanna's previous songs, this is nothing. It's catchy or rather Rihanna tried to make it look catchy by uttering those hook lines "we found love in a hopeless place" a million times in the song! But that worked out for doped duo!

Born this way and I'm on the edge - Lady Gaga
There's nothing that can stop Gaga and her imagination! I like "Born this Way" song for its lyrics and the message the song carries! But I've always found Gaga trying to imitate Madonna a lot! Do you agree?

Rolling in the deep - Adele
Adele's soul stirring and authoritative vocals, the feel of the song, thumping background and those lyrics are at its best in this song! I started liking this song lately, but now it's one of the songs that I listen atleast once everyday!

The one that got away and TGIF and ET - Katy Perry
The one that got away is a soft romantic song with tragic video (be it the actual video or seeing KPerry with poor aging make up). But that apart I like this song! And TGIF and ET had already hit everyone's house - so needs no explanation.

Give me everything - Pitbull Feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack and Nayer
This is a great year for Pitbull. All his songs have hit billboard 100. His quick rhymy lyrics moulds well into the song.

Mr.Saxobeat - Alexandra Stan
A high tempo Euro dance song will never fail to strike chord with your music taste! And this is such perfect example. And Alexandra's voice is so catchy.

Without You - David Guetta Feat. Usher
Guetta uses Usher really well in this song. Not anything unusual about the song, but feels good to listen.

Super Bass - Nicki Minaj and Charlene Soraia's Wherever you go
I had to bring 2 songs here, just did not want to miss one for another.
That's the only song I've heard of Nicki. But it's very appealing. Her super rapid rap, kind of electronic feel in the song and the chorus is what made me like this song. And Charlene Soraia is a great find. This song Wherever you go was used for Twilings tea ad in UK. Such mesmerizing soothing song!

And as you see, this year's top albums are from women power! Clear winners!

The magic continues!

noreply@blogger.com (Vaish) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:30:00 +0000

20 years before there was this wonderful movie taken, and then came to limelight this Music God! Are you are still wondering who or what it is?? Roja is that mesmerizing movie! If Sachin is for Cricket, who else can it be for music other than ARR??

The movie released in 1992. After 20 years, this still stands out to be the best movie I've ever seen in the last 2 decades. I was probably in my 5th or 6th standard then, and Roja was the first audio casette that I asked my father to buy me! And that's probably the first audio that I listened so many times since then. And the songs "Roja Jaaneman (Kadhal Rojave) and Ye Haseen Vadiyaan (Pudhu Vellai Mazhai) still top my favourite song list. Even after hearing 1000's and 1000's of music from all genres/ languages, these 2 are the most soul stirring songs till date (according to me)!